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L AND ARENEGADE. BY CAPONEITES Tindorwarld T/ BELA Raw Balks Inquiry. TURN TO GRAPHIC SECTION. The assassination of Machine Gun Jack McGurn recalls anew the decade of death which marked Capone's gang rule. The second chapter of the story of that era * will be found in the Graphic sec- tion of this paper. ‘After twenty-four hours of investi: | gating the murder of Machine Gun , Jack McGurn, Sicilian born swash- buckler who flourished for half a dozen robust years under the wing of Al Capone, the police last night advanced a theory that McGurn was sent to death by some of his own supposed friends. They elaborated, ; “McGurn,” they said, “ was througt; jfong ago as a big shot. He wast 'yroke and a nuisance to his friendd Who still retained a little of the old nsiness of the gangs—vice, GAe es Blonde Alibi ls Poor Help.. good.” Deprived of His Defender. Capt. Martin Mullen Jr, held that if Capone, now in Alcatraz priso were at Uberty and bossing the gangs, he would never have permit. ted the killing of McGurn. - “AL” he sald, “was grateful to MeGurn for exposing a plot of John Scalisi and Albert Anselmi‘ to kill him. McGurn was credited with wiping out those two men. But with Capone locked up, McGurn had Iit- tle influence. I don't think he was powerful enough to make it worth anybody's while to break up his gang by killing the man at the top. 1 “If he was, there will be a few yevenge slayings. It’s doubtful, though,; 2 there will be any: nobody in the fackets cares much whether he’s" gone or not.” The Old Ignorance Gag. At least 20 persons were present In jthe second floor bowling alley at 805 Milwaukee venue, known as the Aves nue Recreation rooms, at 1 a. m, yese terday when MeGurn was shot in the back and in the head by an uniden- tified man, or men, standing close be- hind him. Of the 20, only three have been found to tel! what they saw. And what they saw was, from the stand- point of evidence, negligible, The wall of silence, traditional among the gange Sters and the people who know them, was erected high and tight. Vague ness afflicted not only the witnessdg of the actual event, but even thos3 Who were questioned merely abou: the victim's history [and they should have knowr his career thoroughly], “YT don’t know what Jack’s busines¢ Mra, MeGurn, 20 known although her husband's real name was Vincent Gebardi, is the former Louise Rolfe, Back in 1929 she established herself as his “blonde alibi,” by signing statements asserting that he was with ‘her in a hotel room [they were not married then] when seven north side gangsters were slain in the St. Valen» tine’s day massacre. - MeGurn was slain just a few min- utes after the close of the seventh anniversary of that massacre, Besida his body on the floor was found a comic valentine twitting him on his joblessness and poverty. | Sergt. Francis Donohue of th efroner’s investigating force fount Mrs. McGurn in her home at North Kenilworth avenue, Qak Park. Stall handsome and tastefully dressed, she went to the inquest into Mec+ Gurn's death, where she took the stand weeping and dabbing at her eyes—but carefully, that the mascara on her eyelashes might not become smeared. Occupation a Family Mystery. “We Rave been told your husband vas a golf professional,” said Deputy Coroner Grover Whalen. “Is that correct?” : “I don't know,” replied the widow, “He played a lot of golf.” > (She then related that he had at- tended the wake of a friend, Gip- seppe Circella, 1335 South Austin byulevard, Cicero, on Thursday nigh’ He went to the funeral Friday morn- CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE ely ge BE { bling end bootleg alky. They were i MEL tired of his interference or of his was,” declared his widow. “He never, \\ begging. So they put him away for told me and I knew I shouldn't ask . him.”